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Descending the steps, she met him at the buggy. "Beauregard has taken Sumter. Anderson surrendered unconditionally. No lives lost." "Thank God!" They sat down on the steps, and a moment after the roar of guns shook the atmosphere, and cheer after cheer went up the evening sky. "Act I, of a long and bloody civil war," said Mr. Huntingdon gravely.
At the council McDowell emphasized the danger of such a junction; but General Scott assured him: "If Johnston joins Beauregard, he shall have Patterson on his heels." With this understanding, McDowell's movement was ordered to begin on July 9.
His letters to his wife told of his early military experiences his pleasure at receiving one of the fine new Sharps carbines which Captain Jones had wangled for his company, and, later, a Colt .44 revolver: his first taste of fire in the Shenandoah Valley, where the company, now incorporated into Colonel Stuart's First Virginia Cavalry, were covering Johnston's march to re-enforce Beauregard: his rather passive participation in the big battle at Manassas.
At that date, July 4, 1861, the rebels had two armies in front of Washington; the one at Manassas Junction, commanded by General Beauregard, with his advance guard at Fairfax Court House, and indeed almost in sight of Washington.
Lacy tore off his coat and vest, and threw them on the wharf, saluted the general and stepped into the boat. Some one in the group lifted a lantern. The flickering light fell on the pale faces of the determined men. "Good-by, sir," said Beauregard. "You, at least, are an officer, a soldier of whom the South is proud. Remember the flagship is your game.
It must have been about five o'clock or a little later when Beauregard sent an order to his command to retire and go into bivouac. The order was delivered by his staff not only to corps commanders, but directly to commanders of divisions and brigades. General Ruggles, while attempting to assemble a force in pursuance of Bragg's order, received the command to retire.
They knew we were mining, and they had failed to cut our mine off by countermining, though Beauregard had taken the precaution to run up a line of intrenchments to the rear of that part of their line fronting where they could see that our men were at work. We had learned through deserters who had come in that the people had very wild rumors about what was going on on our side.
From such an eyrie in the same grove, perhaps from this same tree, a Southern friend of mine, on the battle-day, caught sight more than two leagues away of the glint of sunlight on cannon and bayonets toward Sudley Springs, and sent timely notice to Beauregard that a Federal column was turning his left.
"And walk on Davis Avenue," said Virginia, flushing with pride. "Isn't there a Davis Avenue?" "Yes, and a Lee Avenue, and a Beauregard Avenue," said George, taking his sister's arm. "We shall walk in them all," said Virginia. What a scene of animation it was. The rustling trees and the young grass of early May, and the two hundred and forty tents in lines of military precision.
A couple of muskets lay on the sand close beside the luncheon-cloth, and in a trice she had snatched up one of them, and held our host covered. "You have deceived us, sir," she said quietly. Dr. Beauregard looked along the barrel and into her eyes with an admiring, half-quizzical smile. "Good," said he. "Good, but unnecessary.
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